#obscurity

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#mind #obscurity #out #passion #singling

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world. ↗

— Criss Jami

#conflict #confusion #debate #definition #disagreement

If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it. ↗

— Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak

#clinks #earth #eyes #fame #flee

Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#away #because #big #bill #bus

Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. ↗

— Anna Comnena

#carries #ceaseless #created #depths #drowns

For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a mass. Transformed by science. Under organized power. Subject to tremendous controls. In a condition caused by mechanization. After the late failure of radical hopes. In a society that was no community and devalued the person. Owing to the multiplied power of numbers which made the self negligible. Which spent military billions against foreign enemies but would not pay for order at home. Which permitted savagery and barbarism in its own great cities. At the same time, the pressure of human millions who have discovered what concerted efforts and thoughts can do. As megatons of water shape organisms on the ocean floor. As tides polish stones. As winds hollow cliffs. The beautiful supermachinery opening a new life for innumerable mankind. Would you deny them the right to exist? Would you ask them to labor and go hungry while you yourself enjoyed old-fashioned Values? You—you yourself are a child of this mass and a brother to all the rest. or else an ingrate, dilettante, idiot. There, Herzog, thought Herzog, since you ask for the instance, is the way it runs. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#machinery #modernism #obscurity #science #beauty

I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#everybody #everybody else #few #had #i

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#certain #certain things #confident #content #directions

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you! ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#heart #heartbreak #jane-eyre #love #misconceptions

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#duty #escape #mind #obscurity #questioning